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Making Rights Work

ISBN13: 9781840147841

ISBN: 1840147849

Published: April 2001

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Ltd

Format: Hardback

Price: Out of print

These papers are taken from a weekend workshop at Cardiff Law School on 25 April, 1995. Taking its starting point from the South African experience with regard to human rights and the Constitution, this book explores in-depth the struggle in that country for self-determination.;The argument then broadens, encompassing the human rights commissions gender equality, and the Charter of Rights experience in Canada, European Law for the protection of minorities, and the freedom to protest.

Contents:

Making rights work - the South African experience, Albie Sachs; the struggle for women's rights in South Africa, Fayeeza Kathree; Afrikaner perceptions of self-determination, Johan De waal; the protection of language rights in South Africa's interim constitution, Paul Farlam; lessons from the demise of Bophuthatswana, Stephen Nthite; making rights work, John Griffith; the genesis of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms; anti-discrimination laws in Canada - Human Rights Commissions and the search for equality, John Hucker; gender equality and the Canadian Charter - making rights work for women?, Mary Jane Mossman; rainbow's end - getting gay rights right; the genesis of a European law for the protection of minorities, Alain Fenet; limiting the freedom to protest - legal responses to direct action, Fiona Donson; rapporteur - perspectives on ""making rights work"", Stanley Ingber.